Adani Groups solar manufacturing arm Adani Solar is expecting to get 50 per cent marketshare in two years, a top company official said Saturday. As 80 per cent of solar panels available in the country were made in China, the company was manufacturing module and panels, which were cheaper and durable, for Indian markets, general manager(business development) of Adani Solar Cecil Augustine told reporters here. With a marketshare of 10 per cent and expected growth, the company was sure to capture 50 per cent marketshare in another two years, Augustine said. The company official was here to announce the launch of its retail distribution business in Tamil Nadu with K Powers Solar, an exclusive channel partner for the region. In a span of three months, Adani Solar has expanded the retail distribution of its solar panels in seven regions, helping over 500 cities across the country meet their renewable energy requirement, he said. The partnership with K Powers is a stride ...

At least eight people were killed in a carbon dioxide leak on a cargo ship in an eastern Chinese port on Saturday, officials said. The incident happened at around 4:00 pm at Longyan port in Rongcheng city, Shandong Province, the local authority said. The cause of the leak is under investigation, state-run China Daily reported.

Before bartender Brian Miller met and fell in love with rum, he favored whiskey. Lately, he's been busy encouraging others to take the same leap of faith he took and give rum a try. As Americans have helped liquor makers reach historic high sales, rum remains a laggard. In 2018, rum's volumes dipped 3.1% from the prior year, badly underperforming the growing demand for whiskies from America, Ireland, and Scotland, as well as the vodka, tequila, and cognac. Over the past five years, volume has slipped from 25.6 million 9-liter cases to 23.9 million. "In the U.S., whiskey is America's drink and there's a lot of knowledge about this category--people know the mainstream brands," says Matt Crompton, a director at Nielsen. The rum and coke is the spirit's most high profile and, problematically, most uninspiring cocktail. Rum has other perception issues. Because the spirit is made from sugarcane byproducts, there's an assumption rum is overly sweet. Rum is produced in dozens of countries, resulting in a heritage ...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that consumers and app developers can sue Apple's App Store for "alleged monopolization." The company hasn't faced any App Store antitrust lawsuits yet, but given the findings in a new survey released this week, many in the tech seem to believe Apple's App Store is a problem. In a survey conducted between May 14 and May 20, Blind, a social network where people can anonymously discuss their workplace, asked a simple question: Is Apple's App Store a monopoly? More than 10,000 people, including hundreds from Apple, Spotify, and others, chimed in. Overall, 44.1% of respondents said they think Apple's App Store is a monopoly, versus 40.7% who think it does not. (Additionally, 15.2% of overall respondents said they did not know.) The survey relates to last week's Supreme Court's ruling, which paves the way for Apple to face lawsuits over its App Store policies, largely centers on the company banning third-party application marketplaces from iOS. The central issue is that ...

On April 18, the doors opened to the Tulsa Club--an 11-story, 96-room hotel in a historic Art Deco building--and drew a line directly from the old Tulsa, Okla. it was originally built for and the new Tulsa that it will serve. The building first went up in 1927, all Italian stonework and flashy design, a joint project between the Tulsa Regional Chamber of Commerce and the members of the elite gentleman's club from which the hotel draws its name. On the top six floors of the building--and later in the entire space--Tulsa Club members dined in their grand ballroom, relaxed in Turkish baths, and got their haircut in the barbershop. It was a lavish building, emblematic of the oil-boom town culture at the time. By 1994, the club abandoned the building, which was sold and sold again, before falling into disrepair. In 2015, a developer called the Ross Group purchased it to turn into the current iteration of the hotel. The building survived three fires while it sat vacant, says Kimberly Honea, the Tulsa Club's ...

Before the judges could finish announcing the winner of the Meilleur Ouvriers de France (Best Craftsperson of France) competition in the sommelier category last October, everyone knew it was going to be Pascaline Lepeltier. It wasn't just that the Master Sommelier had placed as a finalist three times before. As food writer Sylvie Bigar noticed, Lepeltier was the only "madame" among the nine contenders. In winning Lepeltier became the first woman to earn the title, chipping a crack into the glass ceiling that has long loomed over the French vocation. One month later she shattered it, becoming the first woman to be crowned Best Sommelier of France by the Union de la Sommellerie, the second of metier's top national honors. Things could not have been more different at the gala for the Lauriers, Quebec's culinary awards, in Montr?al last month. Had presenters used the "madame" prefix to announce the Best Sommelier of the Year, the winner would not have been obvious. For the second year in a row, four out of ...